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Their lawyer Michael McDonough, of firm McDonough Associates, said: 'If my clients are successful in their claims, they will be seeking a considerable amount of compensation in the region of £40,000 between them.'

Allegations: Team leader Danny Butterworth, left, is accused of ogling and touching Miss Williams and asking about the size of her boyfriend's manhood

Giving evidence at Liverpool employment tribunal, former stewardess Miss Williams told how she joined the firm in January 2014.

She would cold call members of the public in search of accident victims to pass on to solicitors.

She recalled: 'Mr Butterworth would come up behind me while I was sitting at my work station and start to rub and massage my shoulders. I would tell him to stop but he would just laugh and ignore my complaints. He would only desist when Mr Healiss angrily intervened.'

When she gained a new client, Mr Butterworth would allegedly use her success as an excuse to hug her.

Case: The couple's lawyer claims that they should be paid £40,000 if the tribunal finds in their favour

She went on: 'Mr Butterworth was constantly asking me to lean over the desk and then pointedly looking down my top at my breasts and leering at me.

'Mr Butterworth was always making remarks about my breasts, saying 'You have big boobs' or 'You have nice boobs'.'

She said that on one occasion Mr Butterworth pulled up her top to expose her tattoo of a teddy bear on her back and commented: 'It looks like a big c***'.

She went on: 'One several occasions, Mr Butterworth came up behind me, put his hand under my top and pulled my bra strap.

'He would say to me, often in the presence of Mr Healiss: 'Is he good in bed?''

Confirming his girlfriend's account, Mr Healiss told the tribunal: 'These incidents happened on a daily basis and often in my presence and I can state that I found this to be degrading and humiliating on each and every occasion.

'I continually engaged in strenuous protests and arguments with Mr Butterworth over these actions but he would just ignore and I felt powerless to do anything else about it.'

The pair said that they repeatedly complained about Mr Butterworth to operations manager Kevin O'Toole but he failed to discipline him - and instead in August 2014 he suspended Miss Williams and fired Mr Healiss.

Miss Williams said: 'I made a number of complaints to Mr O'Toole about these incidents of sexual harassment.

'However, Mr O'Toole just ignored the complaints or brushed them aside. He would say: 'You are a pretty girl' with the implication that I should accept these remarks and 'Danny thinks he is one of the boys and it is only a bit of fun'.'

Miss Williams said that she also emailed company owner Rachael Tansey about her harassment ordeal and resigned in September 2014 after getting no response.

Defence: The tribunal, held in the Cunard Building in Liverpool, pictured, heard from their former boss who said the couple had a bad attitude and threatened violence before leaving

Giving evidence, Mr O'Toole said that the couple had been 'kissing, flirting, discussing their weekends together and displayed behaviour that was not becoming of an office environment.'

He said that Miss Williams insisted on being moved to her boyfriend's team.

He added: 'Maxine Williams adopted a very arrogant stance over fellow employees as her 'boyfriend was the boss', and assumed a position of authority and a generally bad attitude.'

He said that he suspended Miss Williams for threatening Mr Butterworth and ordering her boyfriend to 'knock his f***ing head off'.

Mr O'Toole said that when he suspended Miss Williams, Mr Healiss lost his temper and threatened violence.

Mr O'Toole added: 'At no time throughout Maxine Williams' employment did she raise any issue with me regarding the conduct of Mr Danny Butterworth.

'At no stage were any complaints of any nature of harassment raised by either claimant. This is a retrospective and vexatious claim with no merit whatsoever.

'We investigated within the office and no evidence of these allegations being true was discovered.'

M & R Marketing and Mr O'Toole strenuously deny all the allegations.

Their solicitor Sean Carty, of law firm Canter Levin & Berg, said that they do not wish to comment on ongoing litigation.

Mr Butterworth and Mr O'Toole no longer work for the firm.

The tribunal continues but has been adjourned until October.

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Couple are suing M & R Marketing claiming the boss 'harassed them over their sex life'